Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions almost no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman.
At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan two questions related to the recent disclosure of ex-FBI official Mark Felt as the Watergate source for the Washington Post's Woodward and Bernstein.
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WND: Scott, considering the enormous amount of national and international coverage, the president is aware of the University of Texas paying $5 million for the papers of Woodward and Bernstein –
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McCLELLAN: I thought you were going to ask about winning the regional championship in Austin and going to the super regionals maybe on their way to the College World Series. (Laughter.) He and I both are aware of that. (Laughter.)
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WND: – the president wonders why part of this $5 million and part of their book and movie income is not shared with Mark Felt, doesn't he, in his commendable concern for fairness?
McCLELLAN: We haven't had a discussion about it, Les.
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WND: Since the president values the American way of debating all national issues –
McCLELLAN: I, being a University of Texas graduate, though, I think it's great that they have those papers. That was a personal opinion. (Laughter.)
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WND: The president would relish seeing [commentator and former Nixon staffer] Pat Buchanan versus [the Post's former editor] Ben Bradley on Watergate, wouldn't he, if Bradley would not flee?
McCLELLAN: I think the president has expressed his views on this whole matter.
